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The Labour Party’s sudden discovery of technology, forged in the white heat of Harold Wilson’s speech to the 1963 Party Conference at Scarborough, had a double significance for the politics of the sixties. Not only did it set Labour on the path back to power; it also heralded a style of Government interventionism quite new in British politics.
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Further Reading
Christopher Layton, European Advanced Technology (P.E.P., 1969).
Anthony Crosland, The Future of Socialism (1956).
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Keegan, V. (1972). Industry and Technology. In: McKie, D., Cook, C. (eds) The Decade of Disillusion: British Politics in the Sixties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01297-8_6
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